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"Certainly not; I have not been able to make acquaintance yet with all our tenants, but they seem quite to understand the difference in our positions," said Cecil, with due deliberation. Julius choked his amusement, and waived that point. "But did you not feel obliged to decline her services at the Wil'sbro' work- room?" "That was quite another thing.
This lasted but a minute or two, however, when the parachute itself, torn, and caught in the branches, came to anchor. "I fancy we had better climb down," remarked Cecil, cheerfully, and, at the same time, Stuart realized that the belt, which had grappled him tight to the Englishman's harness, had been loosened.
Was to have lunched with Ned Stone but he was in court. Met Whigham in street. Impulsively asked him to lunch. Ethel and Jack turned up at Martin's; asked them to lunch. Ethel and I drove around town doing errands, mine being the purchase of tickets for numerous friends. Called on Miss Trusdale to inquire about Harden-Hickey. She wants her to go to the country. Cecil arrived at six.
"You say what?" inquired Constantia, her whole countenance and figure dilating with that hope which had so long been a stranger to her bosom. "I say that Robert Cecil is no murderer! Stand forth, Walter Cecil, and state that within the two last years, you saw your father in a Spanish monastery; and that "
"Small and mean was the furniture of the chamber," said Cecil; "and although they attribute this to his love of privacy, yet it is a sign that peace is the mother of all honour and state, as may best be perceived by the court of England, which her Majesty's royal presence doth so adorn, as that it exceedeth this as far as the sun surpasseth in light the other stars of the firmament."
One of them was always addressed to Cecil Holsworthy, Esq." "And the other?" "Wasn't." "Did you note the name?" I asked, interested. "Yes; here it is." She handed me a slip of paper. I read it: "Reginald Nettlecraft, Esq., 427, Staples Inn, London." "What, Reggie Nettlecraft!" I cried, amused.
His sister struggled against this conviction as long as she was able, and when it prevailed over her hopefulness she ventured to speak of it to him. He was not unprepared. "I am, after all, afraid, Cecil, that Miss Fairfax may turn out an uninteresting person," she began diffidently. "Because I fail to interest her, Mary is that it?" said her brother.
Jim was motionless, each hand like iron on the rein yet with gentleness, for he knew the great black brute was only a baby after all, and a badly frightened baby at that. Cecil, coming by on Betty, his face white, looked aghast at the struggle between horse and rider, and fled on homewards. The thunder pealed, and the lightning lit the sky in forked darts.
Under the ambitious leadership of Cecil Rhodes and others, British dominion in South Africa was extended northward over the protectorates of Rhodesia and Basutoland, reaching, as stated, as far north as Lake Tanganyika and embracing an area of about 1,300,000 square miles.
It was off'm Cousin Tim we got it." "That miscreant in the shed there?" asks the Lieutenant. "Him?" says Maggie. "Lord love ye, no. That's only Schwartzenberger, from the slaughter-house. And please, Mister, it'll be gone the mornin' ivry bit gone." "Oh, will it!" says Cecil sarcastic. "But you'll be in prison first." "Wurra! Wurra!" moans the fat female. "Save us, Maggie!
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